Author: Donald K. AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Higher Educational Reforms in the Republic of Korea
Author: Donald K. AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Global Phenomenon of Family-Owned or Managed Universities
Author: Philip G. AltbachPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004423435
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Although an entirely unknown part of higher education worldwide, there are literally hundreds of universities that are owned/managed by families around the world. These institutions are an important subset of private universities—the fastest growing segment of higher education worldwide. Family-owned or managed higher education institutions (FOMHEI) are concentrated in developing and emerging economies, but also exist in Europe and North America. This book is the first to shed light on these institutions—there is currently no other source on this topic. Who owns a university? Who is in charge of its management and leadership? How are decisions made? The answers to these key questions would normally be governments or non-profit boards of trustees, or recently, for-profit corporations. There is another category of post-secondary institutions that has emerged in the past half-century challenging the time-honored paradigm of university ownership. Largely unknown, as well as undocumented, is the phenomenon of family-owned or managed higher education institutions. In Asia and Latin America, for example, FOMHEIs have come to comprise a significant segment of a number of higher education systems, as seen in the cases of Thailand, South Korea, India, Brazil and Colombia. We have identified FOMHEIs on all continents—ranging from well-regarded comprehensive universities and top-level specialized institutions to marginal schools. They exist both in the non-profit and for-profit sectors.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Author: Hyunjoon ParkPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9814451274
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This edited volume offers a comprehensive survey of Korean education in transition. Divided into three parts, the book first assesses the current state of Korean education. It examines how the educational system handles the effects of family background and gender in helping students smoothly transition from school to the labor market. Next, the book introduces growing concerns over whether the traditional model of Korean education can adequately meet the demands of the emerging knowledge-based economy. It examines features of new reform measures that have been introduced to help Korean education prepare students for the new economy. The third part discusses how an influx of diverse migrant groups, including marriage migrants, migrant workers, and North Korean migrants, and the rising divorce rate — two major demographic changes— challenge the fundamental assumption of cultural homogeneity that has long been a part of Korean education. This detailed analysis of a society and educational system in transition will appeal to a wide range of readers, from those involved with Korean education to educators and administrators in countries currently looking for ways to handle their own economic and demographic changes.
From Dependence to Autonomy
Author: P.G. AltbachPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9789024737772
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education Lessons from PISA for the United States
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264096663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This volume combines an analysis of PISA with a description of the policies and practices of those education systems that are close to the top or advancing rapidly, in order to offer insights for policy in the United States.
Research in Education
Author: Reform and Innovation in Higher Education
Author: Philip G. AltbachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Asian American Fiction After 1965
Author: Christopher T. FanPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023155978X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian immigrants flocked to professional-managerial occupations, especially in science, technology, engineering, and math. Asian American literature is now overwhelmingly defined by this generation’s children, who often struggled with parental and social expectations that they would pursue lucrative careers on their way to becoming writers. Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia. In readings of writers including Ted Chiang, Chang-rae Lee, Ken Liu, Ling Ma, Ruth Ozeki, Kathy Wang, and Charles Yu, he examines how Asian American fiction maps the immigrant narrative of intergenerational conflict onto the “two cultures” conflict between the arts and sciences. Fan argues that the self-consciousness found in these writers’ works is a legacy of Japanese and American modernization projects that emphasized technical and scientific skills in service of rapid industrialization. He considers Asian American writers’ attraction to science fiction, the figure of the engineer and notions of the “postracial,” modernization theory and time travel, and what happens when the dream of a stable professional identity encounters the realities of deprofessionalization and proletarianization. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.”
Japan and Korea
Author: Frank Joseph ShulmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135158096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
First Published in 1971. This annotated bibliography of doctoral dissertations on Japan and Korea grew out of a decision to expand and bring up to date an earlier list entitled Unpublished Doctoral Dissertations Relating to Japan, Accepted in the Universities of Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, 1946-1963, compiled by Peter Cornwall and issued by the Center for Japanese Studies in 1965.
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